REFLECTIONS ON A TRIP
Kelley, John
R E F L E C T I O W S by John Kelley As an Arthur C. Clarke enthusiast, I avidly awaited his screenplay in Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey." When the film finally played in the...
...This ghoulish act apparently momentarily, but only momentarily, brought him to his senses, for he now expressed his pain and anguish most vocally, bringing him the attention of the others in the room...
...resulting in an interpretative Tower of Babel...
...I have it on good authority that L B J, while holding office, engaged in frequent social intercourse with avowed Roman ecclesiasts...
...Writing in "The City of M a n " (1940), these sagacious delphians divined America's potential greatness: Here, almost nowhere else, is Europe: The Europe-America that will become "all things to all men" to "save them all...
...Recently the Johnson Administration gave away not one, but several, acres of our precious Rio Grande domain to papist Mexico...
...Admiral Mahan foresaw the danger from the east nearly seventyfive years ago...
...Being desperate, last night — my 39th viewing — I invited a new left friend, little knowing that he planned to view the epic while under the influence of Speed, L T V and LSD...
...For those who assent to our domination, the fate . . . * * * * At this point my friend, leaning backward, exhausted the stein's contents, and brought it back to the table with such force that it shattered, severing two of his writing digits at the knuckles...
...W e must return to the ideals of our great W A S P forefathers, John Quincy Adams, John L. O'SulIivan, Andrew Kennedy, Edward A. Hannegan, John Fiske, John W . Burgess, Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan, Henry Cabot Lodge and Albert J. Beveridge...
...The National Committee To Go Through With It...
...Remember, mein Chamberlain, it is the inspiration of such men that has gotten us where we are today...
...Fearing for his safety, not knowing the hour or the place of the "yellow horde's" return, the AngloSaxon will be compelled to go into space, to seek out and destroy his chosen enemy...
...To this end the AngloSaxon must engage in a scorched-earth policy, decimating all planetary civilizations which offer resistance...
...I hope against hope . . . Once again the Hon...
...Consequently the WASP's must ravish Japan, sparing only her most brilliant scientists, who shall be catapulted into deep space...
...simultaneously, in what appeared to be an improvised ritual, he chanted a Spengler quotation (I later found it in Man and Technics) while soaking the Village Voice envelope in his gore: War is the prime fact of Life, is Life itself...
...Rather than expanding, our dominion has contracted...
...The film's effect on him was quite unsettling...
...threatened to "smash" America's most precious proctologist...
...Remember Bloody Chicago...
...For information write: NCTGTWI, Ellettsville Office, R.R...
...This is America's finest hour...
...A national shrine for William A .Walker and his filibusters...
...Quickly I perceived the double irony of his death...
...Yet history has shown that man does not achieve without challenge, fear and motivation...
...Three cheers for the Knights of the Golden Circle...
...What must be done...
...and "The City and The Stars"), but to no avail...
...Although intriguing, I found Clarke's screenplay anything hut cohesive, integrated or contiguous...
...Not one to acquiesce in first failure, I invited numerous friends to subsequent viewings, hoping their counsel might provide the missing link...
...Kelley has inspired us all...
...Beware the RACEMIXERS...
...he rushed from the building, tripped over a dormant hippy, and fell to the asphalt — immediately in the path of a speeding Honda 250 — which proceeded to make a monolith of his upper appendage...
...Rulership by the strong and wisest is the prescribed path to equality for all . . . The healing of the world requires a firm hand . . . American leadership is world trusteeship...
...Beware the Jesuit plots...
...The Star...
...Let us ring a chorus of "pooh pooh" for all the supporters of "fortress America", and a hearty "balderdash" for those who call for retrenchment...
...Glancing skyward I noted that the last-quarter moon had crossed the zenith just as m y friend went to his nadir...
...Perhaps tonight I shall find the key which imlocks the mystery...
...Alas mein Chamberlain, America — the land of skyscrapers, cloverleaf interchanges, giant sequoias and the bedside reader — has failed in its call to greatness...
...W e have lost the very will to extend our security perimeter...
...The RussianAmerican space competition is sufficient datum to confirm this point...
...Join us in promoting this just cause...
...If man is to be godlike before the death of his sun, then he must escape the limits of Einsteinian physics...
...He realized the day was approaching "when the vast mass of China — now inert — might yield to one of those impulses which in past ages buried civilizations under a wave of barbaric invasion...
...the monolith...
...It must have its L E B E N S R A U M . The Anglo-Saxons and the Japanase (honorary WASP's) are decidedly superior to the asiatics, africans and latins...
...Upon leaving the theatre for our favorite pub, he proceeded to goose-step the entire distance, much to m y immediate distress...
...In America's Time of Trial Won't You Join...
...On earth the sun was rising, and it dawned on me that I needed rest before I saw the "Space Odyssey" for the 40th time...
...As his obviously excited state would brook no interference, I proceeded to drown m y agitation in excessive compotation, while m y friend wrote thusly: Beware the Illuminati and their successors, the INS I D E R S and the O N E - W O R L D E R S ! In 1789 they instigated the French Revolution to the detriment of all unborn mankind...
...the Pax American, a preamble to the Pax Humana...
...There they will nurture their immense hatred of the occidentals, seeking out a suitable planet for survival in some distant solar system (perhaps that of Cygni 61...
...R E F L E C T I O W S by John Kelley As an Arthur C. Clarke enthusiast, I avidly awaited his screenplay in Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey...
...Moaning something about "Father Jahn . . . the music of the spheres . . . the monolith...
...Gore Vidal, in "the goddam mouth...
...The beast of prey is the highest form of mobile life...
...The Wall of Darkness...
...Examining the lunar orb more closely I could barely make out the crater Corpemicus on the terminator, preparing to slide into the moon's long night...
...Oswald Spongier, Matt Helm, James Burnham and Revilo P. Oliver warned of the 'decline of Western Civilization' and its attendant virtues and values, but no perception has excelled that of Lewis Mumford, Thomas Mann, Van Wyck Brooks, Gaento Salvemini and Reinhold Niebuhr...
...But this insidious international conspiracy didn't stop with implanting the seeds of Western Civilization's destruction, they catalyzed the gestation and suckled the germination of the international Communist conspiracy: the 20th century version of the barbarian Goths, Vandals, Mongols, Huns, Yamahas, Turks and Saracens...
...M y guest is a Baptist minister...
...What must be done...
...In our only recent 306 effort to extend our security perimeter, 1959 Hawaiian statehood, we introduced the vermin of a polyglot culture to our body politik...
...11, Box 360, Bloomington, Indiana 47401, Continental, U. S. A. 307...
...The populace of latin america, asia, russia and africa are unstable — they must be annihilated by cobalt bombs...
...On to the ramparts...
...Once comfortably seated in the rear of the tavern he commenced ranting and raving about the film's logical import for "manifest destiny," "psychic energies" and the "Volks state...
...Astounded, I said nothing as he tore off the remaining fleshy strips which had prevented his amputation from partaking of the character of a perfect razor cut...
...America must expand...
...Forthwith the Saturday Evening Club is opening offices for our latest enterprise, The Lunar Development Corporation under directorship of Bill Kristol...
...When the film finally played in the hinterlands, I promptly attended, anticipating an evening of intriguing but understandable fantasy...
...In quick succession I received the composite wisdom of a singing hodcarrier, a reticent nymphomaniac, a retired derelict, a practicing psuedo-intellectual, a dormant ditchdigger, etc...
...In the Faustian Kultur the proud blood of the beast of prey revolts against the tyranny of pure thought...
...The film's symbolism grabbed me, however, and I tried to interpret it in the perspective of several A. C. Clarke stories ("The Nine Billion Names of God...
...Trancelike he began scribbing incoherent sentences on a return envelope for the Village Voice...
...Marvelling at the coincidence, I quietly pondered the significance of this juxtaposition in time and space...
...Bravo for the Ostend Manifesto...
...Buckley to go through with it...
...To do so he needs great psychic and political stability...
...Remember the words of our Lord (Acts 17:26): "And hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth and hath determined the times before appointed, and the grounds of their habitation...
...Now we of the National Committee urge Mr...
...Apparently rather delighted with his involuntary masochism he proceeded to draw in blood the new left peace symbol, employing one of his bloodied stumps for the task...
...National Chairman: C. H. Simonds During the 1968 National Democratic Convention William F. Buckley, Jr...
Vol. 3 • September 1969 • No. 2
